john_gilmore_bonanza

<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/john-gilmore-1935-2016-black-dahlia-bunco-artist/"></div><p>By<a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/larry-harnisch/"> Larry Harnisch</a></p>
<p>John Gilmore was a liar, a fraud, a con man, and a thief. The author of a string of “outsider” books — including the notorious <em>Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder</em> — Gilmore also had a hair-trigger for lawsuits. If he hadn’t died in October at the age of 81, I would most likely have had to defend in court what I just wrote. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/john-gilmore-1935-2016-black-dahlia-bunco-artist/#more-3268" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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John Gilmore (1935-2016): The Black Dahlia and the Bunco Artist

Richard Nixon: The Life

<h4>Larry Harnisch retired from the <em>Los Angeles Times </em>in 2015 after 27 years as a copyeditor, feature writer, columnist, and blogger. He is writing a book about the 1947 Black Dahlia case.</h4>

Larry Harnisch

Traumatized Nixon

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

<p>"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn</p>

Biography &amp; Autobiography

The Wrong Side of Goodbye

Detective Glock in Echo Park: L.A. Crime Fiction and Michael Connelly’s “The Wrong Side of Goodbye”

"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter, eh?" — Dashiell Hammett

Noir

Larry Harnisch retired from the <em>Los Angeles Times </em>in 2015 after 27 years as a copyeditor, feature writer, columnist, and blogger. He is writing a book about the 1947 Black Dahlia case.